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Re: how to git a read only directory

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BLbill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 22, 2009, 10:00 UTC
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> [~] $ mkdir gitrepo; cd gitrepo
> [gitrepo] $ git-init
> [gitrepo] $ ln -s /etc
> [gitrepo] $ git-add /etc/fstab

(I use git ver. 1.6.1, git-xxx is already deprecated) I followed your example, and failed in the git add,

gitrepo$ git add /etc/fstab fatal: '/etc/fstab' is outside repository

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